On Monday afternoon, the Gettysburg Daily chose the intersection of Washington Street/Taneytown Road and Steinwehr Avenue to photograph the new traffic signals. The Taneytown Road is on the left (southeast). It turns into Washington Street at th[...]
The Friends of the National Parks at Gettysburg constructed over a mile of fences Saturday across the Pickett’s charge fields. Most of the fences run from this point at the intersection of the Emmittsburg Road and Long Lane westerly to Semi[...]
The 1904 Relief Map of the Gettysburg Battlefield is now on display in the new National Park Service Visitor Center. Unfortunately, while it is mounted on the north wall, it is oriented to the east. The correct perspective would be achieved by t[...]
The seasonal rangers have been researching in the library and the reading room the last couple of weeks in preparation for their programs. Here, seasonal Kevin Bowman is leading his group along Cemetery Ridge for “The Third Day: PickettR[...]
A traffic signal will soon be coming to this intersection at Hanover Street and Sixth Street. The Hanover Street/Hanover Road/PA 116 is shown running from left to right in this photograph. The headquarters marker for Confederate Lieutenant-Gener[...]
A view of some of the monuments on Howe Avenue looking across the Taneytown Road to Wright Avenue. The monument to the 49th Pennsylvania is to the right. Big Round Top is in the distance. The unit occupied this area, facing to the south, early [...]
The South Mountains, or Blue Ridge Mountains or Appalachian Mountains are in the distance. The McPherson Barn is in the background. General Robert E. Lee stated that in one of his reports about the battle of Gettysburg, that “the position [...]
Francis Channing Barlow was born on October 19, 1834 in Brooklyn, New York, was raised in Brookline Massachusetts, and would have been 29 years old at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. His youthful features and manner of dress, however, encour[...]
The first shot of the Battle of Gettysburg was supposedly fired at this location, the home of Ephraim Whisler, by Lieutenant Marcellus Jones, Company E, 8th Illinois Cavalry. The marker is seen to the left (west) of the Whisler House. Knoxlyn Ridge [...]
The Park Service is hoping that their supervisor of the monument preservation branch will be able to go to New Hampshire this summer to make a wax mold of the head of an identical monument. When the bronze statue on the monument was vandalized, i[...]